Re: Hourly, daily, weekly monitoring

["Kevin Hilman" <khilman@baylibre.com>]

"Guillaume Tucker" <guillaume.tucker@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> All the branches currently build on kernelci.org are monitored
> for new changes every hour.  While this has shown over time to be
> a good frequency for mainline branches, some subsystem ones may
> be updated a lot more often.  Monitoring them every hour would
> cause a lot of unnecessary builds and tests.  This topic was
> recently brought up again[1] around the addition of the GPIO
> branches, which Linus Walleij said could be monitored once a day
> instead.
>
> So it seems like it would be beneficial to add some parameters to
> the YAML build configuration to be able to tell how often each
> branch needs to be checked for new commits.  There should also be
> some command line option in kci_build to help implementing that
> in an automated build system such as Jenkins Pipeline (say, to
> know the time when a branch needs to be checked again...).
>
> I'm not entirely sure how much flexibility Jenkins can offer in
> that respect, but at least having 3 versions of the monitor job
> that runs every hour, every day and every week should cover all
> the cases.  If possible, we may be able to implement something
> that dynamically schedules the next check for each branch.
>
> How does that sound?

Sounds great.  This is something we've been needing for awhile.

Kevin